29 week update

Man is this stay at the hospital going fast.... NOT! This feels like the longest 1 month, 5 days of my life (not that I'm counting). I'm starting to run out of things to do. The knitting, reading, sewing and staring at the wall are getting pretty monotonous. But I guess you can't expect much when your living quarters are the size of an average sized bedroom.
I learned something about myself today. I am getting really good at performing my own NSTs (non stress test). My nurse today tried for over an hour to get the babies on the monitor with no luck. She told me that she is a bit of a perfectionist so the fact that the hour long strip was full of dashes and short squiggly lines instead of the nice, long heart rate line that we are shooting for, she was quite frustrated. Every time she would find a second heart rate just to find out that it was from the same baby, her brow would furrow and she would let out a deep, long sigh. She told me that if she couldn't find both babies then I would probably have to go over to Labor and Delivery for a couple of hours for further monitoring. I was not pleased at that thought. I'm all for going over there if it's needed, but I didn't want to have to spend an extra two hours strapped to an uncomfortable bed just because the nurse couldn't find both babies. After an hour of trying she took me off the monitor and went off to ask a Dr. what they wanted to do. The second she left the room I grabbed the machine and wheeled it over to my bed, gooped up the pads and placed them on my belly. I wasn't going to go down without at least giving it a try. After, maybe two minutes, I had two different heart rates on the screens. Wahoo! I put on the call light and the nurse rushed to my room. She could see immediately that there were two heart rates from two very different babies. I knew she wouldn't love the fact but man, she did not seem happy about it. She kept a smile on her face and said, "Well if you can do this yourself, then what do you need me for!" Ah, well. I didn't take it personal. These nurses don't see many people with my situation and if they do, they probably only get a few chances to perform the NST while the patient is here. There are a LOT of nurses that work here. I think it makes sense that I would pick up a few things after an entire month of monitoring. Maybe I should do my own from now on;) It would probably make things a little easier, plus it gives me something to do!